John Singer Sargent's Sylvia Harrison

John Singer Sargent's Sylvia Harrison (Frontpage) (Thumbnail Index) (What's New) (Refer This Site)

Sylvia Harrison
John Singer Sargent -- American painter
1913
Private collection
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 88.9 cm (60 x 35 in. )
Inscribed John Singer Sargent 1914
Jpg: local

(Click on image to Step Closer)

Sylvia Harrison (1896-1989) was the daughter of Peter and Alma Harrison (nee Strettell) -- both were Sargent's close friends.

Giovanni Boldini

Portrait of the Artist: Lawrence Alexander "Peter" Harrison
1902
(Father to Sylvia)

John S Sargent

Alma Strettell
c.1889
(Mother to Sylvia)

Some time later Sylvia wrote to art historian McKibbin, "The shawl in which I was painted was kept in Sargent's studio, & I think he painted quite a number of people in it, but apart from Rose-Marie, his niece, I don't know who they were"
(McKibbin papers quoted in The Later Portraits, Ormond and Kilmurray, p. 228)

Repose (Nonchaloire)
1911
(Rose-Marie)

Notes:

See the year in review 1913